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1 Jul 1688 Jacob VINCLAIR born at Zweibrucken, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany [possibly meaning “clear wine,” but generally the name was used to describe someone who owned a corner shop or farmed a piece of land on a corner]

1714 Jacob Winkler (1686) and Anna Brunner (1684) listed as married at Switzerland.

1 Jul 1716 Jacob VINCLAIR and Anna Catherine WENDEL married in Switzerland [The Wincklers lived first at Einöd-Ingweiler, Pfalz-Zweibrücken, located between Homburg and Zweibrücken. Then, about 1720, they settled in Zweibrücken and later they evidently resettled in Ernstweiberg, all of which were located in the Lower Palatinate of Germany]

1732 Anna Catherine WENDEL appears on passenger list at Charlestown, SC as age 43: SMITH, HENRY A.M. "Purrysburgh." In The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, vol. 10:4 (Oct. 1909), p. 209. [The Purrysburg settlement was at one of the principal crossing of the Savannah River on the King’s Highway from Charleston to Savannah. In 1747, Purrysburg became the seat of St. Peter’s Parish along the Savannah River]

1750 Jacob Winkler listed as arrival at PA: EGLE, WILLIAM HENRY, editor Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808. (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 2, vol. 17.) Harrisburg [PA]: E.K. Meyers, 1890. 787p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1967. P.323. RUPP, ISRAEL DANIEL. A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, with a Statement of the Names of Ships, Whence They Sailed, and the Date of Their Arrival at Philadelphia, Chronologically Arranged, Together with the Necessary Historical and Other Notes, also, an Appendix Containing Lists of More Than One Thousand German and French Names in New York prior to 1712. Leipzig [Germany]: p.243.